1. Dialectical Sociology in Québec: About and Around Michel Freitag's Dialectique et Société.
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Côté, Jean-François and Dagenais, Daniel
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SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *THEORY-practice relationship , *SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
The article features Michel Freitag and his theories on contemporary sociology. Contemporary sociology faces many challenges in the understanding and reflective expressive of the transformations that affect societies in the world today. Not that it would lack theoretical models to assume its tasks, but the wide range of phenomena to fall under its scope apparently requires the development of a global perspective which also encompasses specific judgments on the evolution and transformation of things. Michel Freitag was born in Switzerland in 1935. He taught at Université du Québec à Montrél from 1970 to 2000. With the coming of age, so to speak, of the second generation of students trained through Freitag's sociological theory, a research group consolidated itself in the eighties on two grounds: A sociological journal dedicated to theoretical and analytical debates, Société, published since 1987; and a series of monthly seminars, held from 1987 to 1998, under the auspices of Groupe interuniversitaire d'étude de la postmodernité. In the two volumes of Dialectique et société that have been published so far, Michel Freitag presents the main concepts and orientations that help to situate sociology in its historical and normative definitions.
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- 2002